Re: NHS privatisation + IT (was [Sheflug] Computing)

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Not much for you is one helluva lot for me! I could upgrade to an Athlon
1GHz for about 360 quid, but thats a lot to come by when you have a house
and family! Maybe 700MHz is easier (about 200 quid)

Anyway, a 500 is fine for me (even if it is so knackered I have to clock
it to 450 to stop it crashing before LILO gets a look it! ;-)

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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Life would be so much easier if we 
could just look at the source code.
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Richard wrote:

> Graham
> 
> Graham Spearing wrote:
> 
> > > I'd say that 300MHz with 128Mb of RAM is somewhere close.  Although,
> > > there are people who have said to me that 256Mb and a 450MHz chip are
> > > more useful.
> > > I use it with 128Mb of RAM and a 450MHz AMD cpu.  Works very well.
> > > Loads quickly.
> > 
> > That's appaling! Nay embarrasing...
> > 
> > Perhaps theer are lighter alternatives that are functinaly good which
> > allow a shallower learning curve from MSoffice than going straight to
> > Vi? Perhaps KOffice?
> 
> 
> Koffice doesn't have much in the way of compatibility with MS stuff. 
> However, Abisuite is very good and works on slow machines.  Great for
> laptops with 100 to 200MHz cpus.
> 
> I don't really understand what the problem is here.  The 1.1GHz
> machine can be bought down the raod for not much.  I suppose that we
> have to try to help our medical people by not spending money at all :)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard
> 
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